Shaul Bassi is a professor of English literature at Ca' Foscari University in Venice.
His publications include Shakespeare in Venice. Places, characters, and charms of a city that takes the stage (with Alberto Toso Fei, 2007), Turbo Road. Kenya, its writers, a child (2023) and Venice and the Anthropocene (co-edited, wetlands 2022). He is co-founder of the international literary festival Incroci di civiltà.